Obsidian Plugins for Vim Users

If you use Obsidian and are missing some features or plugins from vim, there are a plugins or methods to get the same (or at least a similar) experience in Obsidian as well. I hope this collection may prove useful to vim users coming to Obsidian.

Vim Features #

• Configuring keymaps: vimrc support plugin
• Alternate File: Grappling Hook
• Highlighted Yank: obsidian-vim-yank-highlight
• Embedded Terminal: Terminal-Plugin
• Relative Line Numbers: this CSS Snippet from Shimmering Focus
• Grep Search (Live Grep): Another Quick Switcher (the ripgrep search command) or Omnisearch
• Goto Symbol: Quick Switcher++
• Persistent Undos: Obsidian Version History & File recovery (Core Plugin) (somewhat)
• Running External Commands: Obsidian Shell Commands, or Templater (following this guide)
• Advanced Folding: Creases
• clipboard=unnamed: vimrc support plugin
• <C-o> / <C-i>: Works out of the box, but there are are also Navigate Cursor History, or the undocumented builtin hotkeys cmd-U / ctrl-U
• Neovide's Cursor Animations: Ninja Cursor or Dashing Cursor
• scrolloff: Obsidian Scroll Offset
• g;: Workaround: use the vimrc plugin and add nmap g; u<C-r>
• z=: add exmap contextMenu obcommand editor:context-menu & nmap z= :contextMenu
• Remembering Cursor Position: Remember Cursor Position
• Skeletons: Templates (Core Plugin) or Templater
• j and k in Reading View: obsidian-vim-reading-view-navigation

Vim Plugins #

• Fugitive / Neogit: obsidian-git
• vim-illuminate: Dynamic Highlights
• Harpoon: Grappling Hook
• Telescope: Another Quick Switcher
• Linters: Linter (only --fix, no visual emphasizing)
• todo-comments: Dynamic Highlights
• Zen Mode: Focus Mode or ProZen (or use my theme, Shimmering Focus 😉)
• Tabout: Tabout
• vim-surround: Smarter Markdown Hotkeys (to a degree)
• Hop/Lightspeed/Leap: Jump-to-link
• better-gx: Shukuchi
• Diffview.nvim: Obsidian Version History
• ts-context-commentstring: Obsidian-Contextual-Comments
• lazy-loading of plugins: Obsidian Plugin Manager
• vim-visual-multi: Advanced Cursors
• cmp-emoji: Emoji Shortcodes
• cmp-buffer: Various Complements
• cmp-pandoc: Citations
• Luasnip/vim-vsnip/Ultisnips: Text Snippets
• presence.nvim: Discord Rich Presence
• Aerial/Symbols-Outline: Outline (Core Plugin)
• projects / sessions: Workspace (Core Plugin) or Workspaces Plus
• vim-markdown-toc: Table of Contents or Dynamic Table of Contents